Cigarette package and method of making the same



Sept. 8, 1959 B, J, TAMARlN ET AL 2,903,157

CIGARETTE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed June 23, 1953 v 2Sheets-Sheet 1 FIG. 2

v INVENTORS BERNARD J.TAMAR|N RICHARD B.TAMAR|N BY THEIR ATTORNEYS Sept.8, 1959 B. J. TAMARIN ET AL CIGARETTE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THESAME 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 23, l953 .m SRW mAA mm mTT mJB D A H RE l BR Y B THEIR ATTORNEYS 2,903,157 Patented Sept. 8, 1959 freeCIGARETTE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Bernard J. Tamarin,'Flourt'own, and Richard B. Tanlarin, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application June 23, 1953, Serial No. 363,526

3 Claims. (Cl. 22-1-260) flaps, a jacket encircling the wrapper, and amoistureproofing sealed sheath enveloping the jacket and covering theend closure flaps of the inner wrapper.

In accordance with our invention, the body of the inner wrapper has atongue out therefrom and deflected into adhesive attachment with one ofthe packeted cigarettes. Preferably such tongue is integrally connectedwith and depends from an end closure flap of the inner wrapper and maybe deflected against, and caused to adhere to, a cigarette by theinsertion of a heated blade through a slit in the jacket which encirclesthe inner wrapper. The jacket and inner wrapper are enveloped by asheath of cellophane (sheeted cellulose acetate) or other suitablematerial which is sealed to prevent ingress or egress of moisturethrough the jacket slit, through the tongue opening, or throughotheropenings or joints.

A top section of the sheath is connected by a flexible pull strip withthe end closure flap from which the tongue depends. Stress transmittedthrough a detached sheath section to the pull strip unfolds such flapand the flap may then be used as a pull to lift the tongue and elevatethe cigarette attached thereto.

The characteristics of our improved package, and the best mode which wehave contemplated for producing the same, will more fully appear fromthe following description and the accompanying drawings in illustrationthereof.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan view of an unfolded inner wrapper offoil-covered paper having a tongue and edge slits crease cut therein inaccordance with our invention; Fig. 2 is an unfolded jacket blank slitin accordance with our invention; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional viewof a package embodying our invention and made from the wrapper shown inFig. l, the jacket blank shown in Fig. 2, and a moisture-proofing sheathenveloping the jacket and inner wrapper; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary,sectional side elevation of the package shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a topplan of the package shown in Fig. 3 with parts of the enclosure tornaway; Figs. 6 to 9 are fragmentary perspective views of the upperportion of the package shown in Fig. 3 showing various stages of thepackage opening operation; and Figs. 10 to 13 are fragmentaryperspective views of the upper portion of the package shown in Fig. 3showing various stages of the cigarette elevating operation.

In the embodiment of our invention illustrated in the drawings, awrapper 1 is crush-cut along the lines 2, 3, 4 to form a tongue 5 in thebody of the wrapper, and converging slits 6 and 7 are crush-cut inwardfrom the upper edge of the Wrapper.

The wrapper is bent, preferably around a hollow mandrel, along parallelcrease lines 8, 9, 10, and 11 and the lower portion is then tucked andfolded along lines 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 to form thebottom end closure of a hollow shell.

A jacket blank 21 is provided with a slit 22 adapted to, be aligned withthe tongue 5 by wrapping the jacket blank around the shell formed by thewrapper 1; the jacket blank being creased along the lines 23, 24, 25 and26 and having its lateral edges overlapped and cemented to one another.The lower portion of the wrapper blank is tucked and folded along creaselines 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 to form overlying bottomflaps, some or all of which are cemented together to form a tightbottom. The jacket thus constructed encircles and holds together theshell formed by the inner blank 1 and forms therewith a soft pouch.

The pouch thus formed by the jacket and inner wrapper has an open mouthat its top and is filled with cigarettes 36, or similar rod-likearticles. Preferably the cigarettes are arranged in three rows of whichthe center row is shorter than the outer rows. An end cigarette 36' ofthe central row is slideable in a slideway formed by cigarettes of theouter rows and is slightly spaced thereby from the proximal side wall ofthe inner wrapper.

After the pouch is filled with cigarettes, and while the portion of theinner wrapper 1 above the line 37 continues to project from the top ofthe jacket, a flexible pull strip 38 is peelably bonded to an extensionsection 39 of the wrapper above the tongue 5.

The extension sections 39 and 39 of the side walls formed by the wrapperare then simultaneously downfolded along the line 37 to form narrowclosure flaps or tucks.

The back wall extensions 40 and 41 are then downfolded along the line 37to form together a broad end closure flap, and the front wall extension42 is then downfolded along the line 37 to form a broad closure flap.The downfolded flaps are held in downfolded position, without bonding toone another, by a stamp 43 which is adhesively attached to the outersurfaces of the front and back walls of the jacket and has a bightpartially overlying the broad end closure flaps and at least partiallyoverlying the slits 6 and 7 therein. The slits 6 and 7 preferablyintersect one another and lie adjacent to the inner edge of the flapformed from the extension section 39.

The inner surface of the lower portion of the tongue 5 is coated with athermo-plastic adhesive and may be pressed against the side of thecigarette 36' and caused to adhere thereto by a heated pressure blade(not shown) inserted through the slit 22 for a suflicient distance andfor a suflicient time to effect the bonding of the tongue 5 to thecigarette 36'.

The pouch is then sheathed in a moisture-proofing sheath 44 ofcellophane (sheeted cellulose acetate) or other moisture-proofingmaterial, which is ditficult to tear and which envelopes the jacket andhas end extensions downfolded to form end closure flaps 45, 46, 47 and48 overlying similar flaps formed by the extensions 39, 39', 40, 41 and42 of the inner wrapper.

During the application of the sheath, the flexible strip 38 is foldedover on itself, partially overlies the flaps 40 and 42, and is bonded tothe inner surface of the end closure flap 45 whose outer surface isbonded to the end closure flaps 47 and 48 of the sheath 44.

The flaps 47 and 48 contain a tear-initiating slit 49 which extendstransversely of the flaps and has termini adjacent to the top edges ofthe front and back walls of the package.

The flaps 47 and 48 are bonded to one another and to the stamp 43 by acontinuous thermo-plastic bond 50 surrounding the slit 49 and spacedtherefrom sutficiently 3 to permit the insertion of a thumb nail in theslit to initiate tears in the sheath from the termini of the slit alongthe top edges of the package as shown in Fig. 6.

Stress applied to the torn out section of the sheath is transmittedthrough the pull strip 38 to the downfolded flap formed from theextension 39 and lifts the latter to withdraw the sections 40 and 42' ofthe end sections 40 and 42 from under the edge of the stamp as shown inFig. 7. Continued stress effects further unfolding of the members 39,40' and 42', as shown in Fig. 8, and the detachment of the peelablestrip 38 from the member 39 as shown in Fig. 9.

The sections 40 and 42 are then torn along the crease line 37 to thejuncture thereof with the slits 2 and 3, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11.The member 39 is then pulled upward to draw the tongue 5 out of thepackage and thereby elevate the cigarette 36', as shown in Fig. 12. Whenthe cigarette is partly out of the package, the tongue 5 peels off thecigarette 36', which is supported in its projecting position by theadjacent cigarettes forming the slideway therefor.

Having described our invention, we claim:

1. A package comprising a wrapper surrounding a packet of rod-likearticles, said wrapper having a body and an end closure flap and atongue cut from said body and integral with and lying entirely belowsaid flap and adhesively attached to one of said articles, a jacketsurrounding said wrapper and having a side wall containing an openingaifording access to said tongue adjacent to its attachment to saidarticle, and a moisture-proofing sheath enclosing said wrapper andjacket.

2. A cigarette package comprising a wrapper surrounding a packet ofcigarettes and bent to form front, back and side walls, said wallshaving extensions downfolded to form end closure flaps, one of said sidewalls having a tongue cut therefrom solely below said extensions anddepending from a flap aforesaid, said tongue being adhesively attachedto one of said cigarettes, said last named flap being overlaid by otherflaps aforesaid, said last named flaps containing transverse slits, ajacket surrounding said wrapper and containing a slit afiording accessto said tongue, a stamp affixed to said jacket and overlying said firstnarned slits, a tearable sheath enclosing said jacket and overlying saidflaps and stamp, a pull strip bonded to said sheath and peelablyattached to the flap from which said tongue depends and means forfacilitating the tearing away of the sheath portion to which said pullstrip is bonded and thereby causing said pull strip to unfold said lastnamed flap.

3. A cigarette package comprising a wrapper encircling a packet ofcigarettes and having extensions dovmfolded along creases to form endclosure flaps, said wrapper having a tongue out therefrom adjacent toone of said creases and depending from one of said flaps entirely belowsaid creases, said tongue being adhesively attached to one of saidcigarettes, flaps aforesaid overlying one another and a pair ofoverlying flaps aforesaid containing transverse slits adjacent to theinner end of the flap from which said tongue depends, a jacketencircling said wrapper and having a side wall containing a slitaffording access to said tongue, a sheath enveloping said jacket andhaving downfolded extensions bonded to one another, a pull strip bondedto the inner surface of one of said last named extensions and peelablyattached to said flap from which said tongue depends, said sheathextensions containing a slit and being bonded to one another around saidslit.

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